fracturing of ancient China during the Spring and Autumn era or in the Roman Empire in the age of the Caesars. Our current shifting — that tap, tap on every nation’s politics, media, and economics - isn’t really so unpredictable after all. 242 You may know the old saw of militar...
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At the same time, however, these numbers don’t lie. With our demographics and our debts, we’re on a collision course with the future. The good news: Although time is growing short, we still have the capacity to create positive outcomes. Even though USA Inc. can print money and r...
/ BARAK/ 51 couldn’t guarantee anything. In the months ahead I would come to understand what that meant, because it would happen again. I don’t think Arafat himself orchestrated the violence. Maybe he couldn’t have stopped it completely. But I have no doubt — nor did President C...
/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...
Underfunded entitlements are among the most severe financial burdens USA Inc. faces. And because some of the most underfunded programs are intended to help the nation’s poorest, the electorate must understand the full dimensions of the challenges. Unfunded Entitlement (Medicare...
66 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon “What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. “ --Edward Snowden, interviewed in M...
party politics. But we talked at length about Israel’s immediate security concerns, as well as the country’s longer-term challenges in finding its place in more stable, peaceful Middle East. How, over time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with...
of our retaliatory fire. Some of the Shi’ite villages in the south even greeted our invading units with their traditional welcome, showering them with rice. But for anew Shiite militia calling itself Hizbollah — formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s r...
you could call up the ARMY to deal with the emergency, but you cannot do it on a permanent basis but we now do do it on a permanent basis. We haven't even bothered to repeal the posse comitatus. We are in a state of emergency that was declared on September the 14th, 2001. And it’...
“single territorial unit” under Oslo. In essence, and very probably in name, this meant a Palestinian state. | wasn’t opposed to that in principle, if it was in return for a full and final peace. But the Oslo process meant that we would be handing back land, and control over secu...
Disclosures Important Disclosures FUNDAMENTAL EQUITY OPINION KEY: Opinions include a Volatility Risk Rating, an Investment Rating and an Income Rating. VOLATILITY RISK RATINGS, indicators of potential price fluctuation, are: A - Low, B - Medium and C - High. INVESTMENT RATINGS r...
…n the Snowden breach that met these criteria, © according to a national security official at the Obama White House. © General Alexander closely followed the investigation as it devel- oped over the summer of 2013. By then, of course, the whole world knew that Snowden had stolen...
…s in China’s external influence operations is actually limited. Its primary target audience is the Chinese diaspora in general, and its elite members in particular. The mission of engaging and influencing nonethnic Chinese audiences, individuals, and foreign institutions is ass...
…ture, community and regional development. Other includes international affairs, agriculture, administration of justice, general government, education and veterans’ benefits and services. Source: 1931-1939 data per Census Bureau, “Historical Statistics of the United States, Coloni...
…nvalidated Mr. Snowden’s passport while he was still in Hong Kong, not after he left for Moscow on June 23. The “Consul General- Hong Kong confirmed that Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked June 22,” according to the State Department’s seni...